Mr. Duport, in addition to his literary activities, has started an interesting "back to Nature" experiment at Westfield, Massachusetts.

From Oswego they went in sloops to Lewiston on the Niagara River, whence they were carried in ox wagons to Buffalo, and then in sailing vessels to Westfield, and by Chautauqua Lake and the Allegheny River to Pittsburg.

The wild mountain stream merged into the quiet Westfield river that flowed placidly through little sunny meadows and rippled in a sedate way here and there over stones as became the dignity of a river.

In 1862 I remember a scene at Whitman Hall in Westfield, Massachusetts, which none who were there can forget.

In this company went as Captain Conwell's personal orderly, a young boy, John Ring, of Westfield, Massachusetts, a lad of sixteen or seventeen.

" The old man had come from Westfield, Mass.

Only yesterday Mrs. Westfield had protested again about Hermia's growing intimacy with the Countess, who had quite innocently taken unto herself all of the fashionable vices of polite Europe.

But she had hardly settled herself comfortably when Titine announced Mrs. Westfield.

"Oh, yes," with an air of resignation, "tell Mrs. Westfield to come up.

" She pulled the hair over her temples to conceal the scars of her morning's accident and met Mrs. Westfield at the landing outside.

The good lady sank into a chair, the severe lines in her face more than usually acidulous, but Hermia only smiled sweetly, for Mrs. Westfield's forbidding aspect, as she well knew, concealed the most indulgent of dispositions.

Mrs. Westfield hesitated between a gasp and a smile.

She got up and put her arms around Mrs. Westfield's neck.

He was comfortable, always safe and quite sane, which she was not, and she accepted him in the guise of counselor and friend with the same cheerful tolerance that she gave to her Aunt Harriet Westfield or to Mr. Winthrop of the Pilgrim Trust Company.

Aunt Julia had favored his suit and Mrs. Westfield had given him to understand that it was time Hermia married.

Mr. Edward A. Lawrence, Charleston, S.C. Miss Bessie C. Beehan, Fergus, Ont. " Mary J. Steiger, Westfield, Mass. " Mary I. Deas, Charleston, S.C. Mrs. M.A. Holmes, Lee, Mass. ORANGEBURG.

Minister, Rev. A.W. Curtis, Crete, Neb. Teachers, Rev. A.W. Curtis, Crete, Neb. Miss M.A. Mason, Westfield, Mass. " Almeda Marston, Oberlin, Ohio. " Clara A. Dole, " " SELMA.

E. Bennett 10.62 Westfield.

Mrs. Sarah S. Crowell 2.50 Westfield.

Rev. P. Kimball 10.00 Westfield.

South 66.62 Westfield.

# Quain £50 English Essay WESTFIELD COLLEGE.

All Scholarships at Westfield College are for women only.

We stopped for dinner at a small village a few miles from Westfield.

At Westfield the spark began to give trouble; the machine was very slow in starting, as if the batteries were weak; but that could not be, for one set was fresh and the other by no means exhausted.